Allow NAT access to Publicly-accessible Internal Services via PFSense
You now have your nice PFSense firewall connected to the net and your users are happily connected then you decided to put up publicly-accessible network services like a web server. But horror starts to creep in when you found out that your users (or your developers) cannot access your public server using their workstations within your local network.
You tried everything in vain and suddenly felt the urge to scream with all your might.
As far as you’re concerned, you’ve setup PFSense correctly. You have enabled port forwarding quite perfectly. The web server is running without a hitch. You have your DNS working perfectly. But your users cannot seem to access your internal server using your public IP address or domain..
Dont despair. It’s really simple.
1. Open your PFSense web gui.
2. Move your mouse over to System, and click Advanced.
3. Scroll down, and look at the Disable NAT Reflection field. Make sure that it is unchecked.
4. Click on Save.
That’s all there is to it! Enjoy!
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